College Countdown Correction: #346
A couple weeks ago, I discovered I made a mistake on the current iteration of the College Countdown, which is tracking through the top one thousand albums on the college radio charts between 1979 and 1989. For all sorts of … Continue reading College Countdown Correction: #346
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #18
18. XTC, Skylarking (1986) XTC were handed an ultimatum from their record label. The trio had all the material needed to record a new studio album, which would be their eighth long-player under the XTC name (they’d also just released … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #18
Outside Reading — The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning edition
The Swedes know the secret to happiness: You are not your stuff by Michael J. Coren Using the bestselling book The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and its spinoff reality show as a prompt, Michael J. Coren writes about … Continue reading Outside Reading — The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning edition
This Week’s Model — Career Woman, “Passing”
Career Woman is a Los Angeles band led by singer-songwriter Melody Caudill. Although Caudill still hasn’t crossed the threshold into her twenties, she’s been impressive prolific to this point, boasting a bandcamp page packed with gleaming pop-rock goodness. The band’s … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Career Woman, “Passing”
Laughing Matters — Brooklyn Nine-Nine Cold Open: “Holt’s Mysterious Injury”
Sometimes comedy illuminates hard truths with a pointed urgency that other means can’t quite achieve. Sometimes comedy is just funny. This series of posts is mostly about the former instances, but the latter is valuable, too. I maintain that Cheers … Continue reading Laughing Matters — Brooklyn Nine-Nine Cold Open: “Holt’s Mysterious Injury”
Radio Days — Federal Communications Commission Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit
This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. The FCC Seal stamped onto the little yellow card means it is valid for the lifetime of … Continue reading Radio Days — Federal Communications Commission Restricted Radiotelephone Operator Permit
Book Report — Transit; This Woman’s Work
Transit by Rachel Cusk Fiction, 2016 Loneliness, she said, is when nothing will stick to you, when nothing will thrive around you, when start to think that you kill things just by being there. Yet when she looked at her … Continue reading Book Report — Transit; This Woman’s Work
Radio Days — 90FM’s Reunion 11
This series of posts covers my long, beloved history interacting with the medium of radio, including the music that flowed through the airwaves. In recent years, I’ve had the good fortune of having several opportunities to step into the radio … Continue reading Radio Days — 90FM’s Reunion 11
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #19
19. U2, War (1983) “Boy was seen as a big, successful first album, but October didn’t do as well as everybody hoped,” Steve Lillywhite recalled of the initial studio LPs from U2, both of which he produced. “I thought, ‘Of course they’re going … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #19
Outside Reading — Crooked edition
‘They picked the wrong people’: How locals at the crooked pub are fighting back by Guy Kelly The cockeyed structure known of late as The Crooked House was built in 1765 and has served as a pub under various guises … Continue reading Outside Reading — Crooked edition
Coffee for Two 